Command Line Interface (CLI) for NetworkManager ?

Hi, I would like to know if there is any command line client for NetworkManager. The problem is that I would like to be able to use NetworkManager even if X11 isn't started. If course I can still use iwconfig, ifconfig, dhclient and others command line utilities but I guess that if NM is

FR: NetworkManagerDispatcher should fireup scripts owned by any user.

Greetings. [ Resending with a less annoying title and non signed email; Please reply to this email instead to start a thread. My apologies ] I would like to propose a new feature. The NetworkManagerDispatcher should call any scripts found under NM_SCRIPT_DIR (currently hardcoded